Overcoming skepticism in higher education
The promise of a college education, particularly in the U.S., has been viewed as a path to better job opportunities, higher income, and increased satisfaction in many areas…
Month: January 2020
New microcredential program helps students earn work-ready credentials
Western Governors University (WGU) has launched its first globally-available microcredential in information technology. WGU’s IT Career Framework MicroBachelors is designed to create pathways for individuals looking to advance…
Student’s library work leads to a career in augmented reality
Dillon Cutaiar will graduate Virginia Tech in May 2020 with a job at Microsoft in his back pocket, thanks to his virtual and augmented reality work in the…
7 things that keep young women in engineering fields
As the nation faces a STEM worker crisis, renewed focus is paid to the shortage of young women who pursue engineering career paths in higher ed and who…
4 ways to drive inclusion in higher ed
The failure to drive inclusion in technical education today will have disastrous implications for our future. We are beginning to understand how unconscious biases become encoded in algorithms…
Gen Z, Millennials are more open to continuous learning
When it comes to updating professional skills, continuous learning is more important to Millennials and adult Gen Zers than to Gen Xers and Baby Boomers, according to a…
The 21st-century learning reformation
"We need to reinvent higher education,” says Nelson Baker, Ph.D., dean of professional education and professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of…
5 major online-learning challenges—and how to solve them
Karen Watts has been teaching adult education classes since 1999. A faculty member at Bellingham Technical College in Washington state, she has taught in both face-to-face and online…
5 ways to support faculty technology use and preferences
Slightly more than half of faculty in an EDUCAUSE survey say they prefer teaching in a blended learning environment that includes both face-to-face and online learning components. In…
College admissions officers still use social media, survey says
More and more admissions officers are using applicants' social media profiles as part of the admissions process, according to a survey from Kaplan Test Prep. Thirty-six percent of…